Author Archive: Retro

A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.

A young man (Frankie Darro) gets a job to support his mother; he’s hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.

In this domestic comedy, Peter Foley stands to inherit a fortune from his late uncle. The problem: to increase his allowance from his wealthy relative, Peter pretended to have a wife. Naturally, the will stipulates that Peter still be married, lest he lose his $800,000 legacy.

Sarah Crabtree was once a star of the stage, but has fallen on hard times–her apartment building has been condemned and torn down by the city, and she has nowhere to go. She writes to her friend, the wealthy and famous Lady Henrietta Scorsby, seeking help. She is soon notified that Henrietta–well known for her proclivity for travel to exotic l;locales–is missing in Africa’s Gobi Desert. Devastated by the news, Sarah–who has a chronic heart condition–decides to end her days by impersonating the carefree and fun-loving Henrietta at the Long Island estate.of Henrietta’s nephew John, who has only seen her once many years previously. She soon finds out that her friend’s family is beset by a variety of problems, and she sets out to solve their problems before she dies. However, as it turns out, those problems may not be as easily solvable as Sarah thought.

Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad’s wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy’s broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally’s divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.

Exotic-dancer Eve Lorraine(‘Jan Wiley’)), with aspirations of being a screen actress, isn’t happy with the direction her career has taken, what with performing at a club where the opening and closing act is Selika Pettiford (

Over the objections of her father (Henry B. Wathall) Doris Maynard (Barbara Kent) elopes with family chauffeur Dan Simmons (Eddie Phillips). Simmons pawns her jewels, forges her father’s name on a bank note and leaves Doris a note to go home and let her father support her. A year or two later, Doris meets and falls in love with and marries Donald Thorne (Monte Blue), a crusading district attorney. Her father advises her to let the past remain buried and unrevealed. A campaign for re-election is on and Thorne has the machine organization in despair. Denman (Dewey Robinson), the machine head, is desperate and gets hold of Manners (William V. Mong), a former butler in Thorne’s home who had been fired by Doris for petty theft. Manners agrees to plant some manufactured evidence in Thorne’s home to discredit him. Manners, with Thorne out of town and the servants off, has no problem entering the Thorne [...]

Spotting a man in Washington D.C. that he thinks looks like Otto Lieberman, a fugitive that caused a plane crash that killed eight people, government-agent James Madison manages to identify him by his fingerprints on a water-glass without Lieberman’s knowledge, and learns his address after having his regular cab-driver, Chuck, follow him. Lieberman is now calling himself Dr. Frederic Haskell and working with Bruce Lane on a scheme to gain control of Henry Gregory’s aircraft plant. Gregory has invented a casting-process that uses plastic for some of the parts in an airplane. Gregory was not building “all-plastic” airplanes. Learning the Lieberman and Lane have met with Gregory, Madison also meets him and asks that he be introduced to them as Robert Edmunds, Gregory’s partner in Los Angeles. Lane is a shady-lobbyist who employs Rita Bennett, who is not an operative for a spy ring, on a part-time basis to flatter and distract politicians and businessmen. [...]